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I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'
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Why can't this priest go back to Los Angeles and leave me alone? Why is he taking me to lunch when he should be out there visiting the sick and the dying? That's what priests are for.
Frank McCourt
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It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me.
Frank McCourt -
My dream was to have a Library of Congress catalogue number, that's all.
Frank McCourt -
When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.
Frank McCourt -
If I have a cause, it's the cause of the teacher.
Frank McCourt -
It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
Frank McCourt -
I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,' all the moaning and the whingeing. I'm not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He's the one who made so much possible.
Frank McCourt
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They tell me I'm on 'Politically Incorrect' with Ollie North. That should be a lot of fun.
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They know it's a forty-minute showdown, you versus them. … They have you by the balls and you created the situation, man. You didn't have to talk to them like that. They don’t care about your mood, your headache, your troubles. They have their own problems, and you are one of them.
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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
Frank McCourt -
I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.
Frank McCourt -
I was ashamed of it, of the poverty I came from.
Frank McCourt -
I don't know anything about a stock!
Frank McCourt
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Scatter my ashes on the Shannon.
Frank McCourt -
The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.
Frank McCourt -
I can do no more than tell the truth.
Frank McCourt -
Way back in my mid-20s, I started making notes. I would just jot things down: lists of street names, songs, peculiar turns of speech, jokes, whatever.
Frank McCourt